Documentaries you've seen you still think about to this day

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I recall a documentary in the early-80s about an American serial killer called Kenneth Bianchi, who tried to pass himself of as having another personality who committed murder using his body and who came out under hypnosis.
 
Oh my god this thread ❤ I live for documentaries and there are a few on here which have already been mentioned which have stuck with me. I have written down a load I haven't seen so thank you everyone!

Rain In My Heart - the BBC documentary about alcoholism. The guy who necked a pint of red wine, threw it back up into the glass then started trying to drink it again. He was in hospital after that and bright yellow with jaundice. I think he was still alive at the end of the documentary and I always think of him. I was only about 14 when I watched it too.

Poor Kids - I found it on YouTube about a year ago and rewatched it. Again I wasn't very old when I watched it the first time round, my family wasn't the most well off in the world but I remember just being so so shocked by it and felt so sorry for the kids and how painfully thin one of the mums was. I wonder where they are now.

A few episodes of 'Intervention' which random series of are sometimes on Netflix. You just can't comprehend the levels of addiction and what some peoples' bodies can withstand. Some of the ones with eating disorders are really harrowing too.

I watched a series on iplayer recently about growing up poor in America. It was really sad especially the family living in the motel room. The kids were so resilient.

The Joyce Vincent documentary was terribly sad. I was going through a bad breakup when I watched it and I cried my eyes out.

The homeless girls Kelly and Paige. They were both so old beyond their years, I was so sad to read about Paige, I had no idea until I found this thread.

On a less serious note I used to absolutely love Wife Swap! Quality viewing 😂 I used to work with someone who knew that Lizzie Bardsley.
 
Years ago, they filmed a documentary in the bingo hall that my mum wemt to. One of the women they interviewed said she spent £100 a night at the bingo - usually on the slot machines - this would be more than 20 yrs ago.

They never elaborated how she got this money - she intimated she won it.

But they filmed her at her house with her kids and her son said what's for dinner and opened a kitchen cupboard which had one single tin in it!!! She belted across the room and slammed the cupboard shut!!!

I remember laughing at her behavoour. Now, I'm wondering what the boy had for his dinner. 😱😱😱

My mum recognised from the bingo and she was the talk of the place for the cupboard thing!!!
 
ChubClubThug said:
I can't remember what it was called but there was a documentary on tv years ago about how unwanted babies in, I think it was in Romania? were just dumped and basically left to rot in an orphanage. The handful of nurses cared for them the best they could, but healthy children were just sat, silently rocking, in a vegetative state through no stimulation, interaction or love. It broke my heart. It must have been on about 20yrs ago because I was only a teen myself.

Another one that comes to mind was about street children in India. Where little boys are taken and fed drugs and forced into prostitution for a little bit of money or more drugs. It may have been called bus boys. My memory is shocking lately. It showed the bus drivers picking them up, then going to an area with beds in it in the open. Really disturbing. A woman and a man were trying to help some of them to get off the streets but many were too damaged and addicted. Horrific.
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I remember the first one, that one was so sad.
 
Helpmeout said:
I also loved the series Holiday Showdown on ITV. They’d have 2 families, one would go on something like a posh safari in Africa and the second family would join them, then the second family picked the next holiday for everyone and it’d be like a week in Benidorm or something 🤣 there was always so many arguments!
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OH I remember that show! Some of the people were just a bit ...mental. I can't remember if this was just one episode or bits and pieces of a few, but some memories

- a family who loved caravan holidays. All great, but they made a big point that they only used the one communal toothbrush for the whole lot of them.
- a family who loved going on really cultural trips to museums and galleries. Whatever was their opposing holiday [potentially that caravan one?], it was revealed that the kids would have really liked some play and fun and perhaps not hours and hours of the renaissance.
- a family in Italy who were turning their noses up at all the food, and I think in a pasta or fish place, the restaurant had to order them pizzas. Like an actual delivery guy had to come into the restaurant to deliver them pizzas.
 
ChubClubThug said:
I can't remember what it was called but there was a documentary on tv years ago about how unwanted babies in, I think it was in Romania? were just dumped and basically left to rot in an orphanage. The handful of nurses cared for them the best they could, but healthy children were just sat, silently rocking, in a vegetative state through no stimulation, interaction or love. It broke my heart. It must have been on about 20yrs ago because I was only a teen myself.
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Are you thinking of 'The Dying Rooms' maybe? It sounds very similar except it was in China. Would have been mid 90s I think. I can remember watching it and being about 14 or 15. I'm 41 now.
 
Papparazzo said:
Wow just watched that! How do you know she remarried Ramez?
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There’s a few articles about it! Also in the comments, people speculating that her daughters are apparently devout Muslims who married young and still have a rocky relationship with her. How tragic - I felt so sad after watching that, it’ll definitely stay with me for a while.
 
Wow I fell down a rabbit hole today on YouTube trying to find the young carers doc.

I didn’t find it but I rewatched Protecting Our Children, then I ended up watching Growing Up Poor. I’d forgotten about it but as soon as I watched the first minute I remembered it all, I was really gutted when it said at the end Shelby the Scottish girl was pregnant. I thought she was going to manage to get herself out of the trap she was in. Mind you at least she would have been entitled to more income support with a child at least. So sad.

I also watched a documentary called Britain’s youngest parents which I vaguely remember watching when it came out, I would have only been 11/12. It was really shocking watching it and listening to some of the attitudes of stuff that would be considered absolutely not okay today. Like ‘Lizzie is 8 months pregnant and celebrating her 15th birthday today, her boyfriend is 17’ and then her pregnant 16 year old sister with her 22 year old boyfriend! What was shocking too was Britain’s youngest father of twins being 13 when they were born and the mother being 17?! She said she was dared to sleep with him and didn’t think he could get her pregnant due to his age 😳
 
SpiceWeasel said:
Wow I fell down a rabbit hole today on YouTube trying to find the young carers doc.

I didn’t find it but I rewatched Protecting Our Children, then I ended up watching Growing Up Poor. I’d forgotten about it but as soon as I watched the first minute I remembered it all, I was really gutted when it said at the end Shelby the Scottish girl was pregnant. I thought she was going to manage to get herself out of the trap she was in. Mind you at least she would have been entitled to more income support with a child at least. So sad.

I also watched a documentary called Britain’s youngest parents which I vaguely remember watching when it came out, I would have only been 11/12. It was really shocking watching it and listening to some of the attitudes of stuff that would be considered absolutely not okay today. Like ‘Lizzie is 8 months pregnant and celebrating her 15th birthday today, her boyfriend is 17’ and then her pregnant 16 year old sister with her 22 year old boyfriend! What was shocking too was Britain’s youngest father of twins being 13 when they were born and the mother being 17?! She said she was dared to sleep with him and didn’t think he could get her pregnant due to his age 😳
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I remember watching the Britain’s youngest parents documentary in 2004. It’s on YouTube. Her mother didn’t even seem to care that her 16 year old daughter got pregnant by a 22 year old man. Or that she was smoking at 6 months pregnant.
 
Larson Croft said:
They’re was vodka found in her car open - Her husband is definitely hiding all the facts from that morning.
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I think that either a) he doesn’t want to admit that she was drinking because he played some part in it like they’d had an argument or something or b) as a way of protecting her he doesn’t want to cast her in a bad light since she’s already dead
 
The cult of Jackie (YouTube) I still cannot believe such a cult existed in this day and age & for so long. The women were absolutely fucked. One was impregnated by the cult leader and none of them knew who the mum really was so they all brought up the child (that when rescued at 30 had the mental age of a 11yo). None of them will ever recover from it. One of the women is still trying to protest his innocence and get him out of jail. It’s insane.

SpiceWeasel said:
Could anyone tell me what platform the Real stories: Young carers is on, please? I can't find it on 4od/iplayer/youtube. Thank you!
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Channel 5
 
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Has anyone seen the soft white underbelly documentaries on YouTube? They are short interviews done by a photographer with people living on Skid Row in Los Angeles; homeless, prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, alcoholics, gangsters etc he really gets them to open up and tell their story of how they got to where they are. Some of them are absolutely heartbreaking and have been failed by their parents, the system and everyone around them their whole lives.
 
JakeM said:
I remember watching the Britain’s youngest parents documentary in 2004. It’s on YouTube. Her mother didn’t even seem to care that her 16 year old daughter got pregnant by a 22 year old man. Or that she was smoking at 6 months pregnant.
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Yes it really was quite breathtaking. There just wasn’t any hope for any of them. The mother who was 34 I think didn’t come across any more mature than the daughters, quite scary really. The smoking whilst pregnant/ everyone smoking in the house was terrible. The babies will now be older than they were when they had them, and I doubt they stayed only children.
 
heatmagazine said:
The cult of Jackie (YouTube) I still cannot believe such a cult existed in this day and age & for so long. The women were absolutely fucked. One was impregnated by the cult leader and none of them knew who the mum really was so they all brought up the child (that when rescued at 30 had the mental age of a 11yo). None of them will ever recover from it. One of the women is still trying to protest his innocence and get him out of jail. It’s insane.

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Thank you!!

britishbunny said:
I have watched Joyce on 4od at the start of the year, I'm sure it still on? If not I know it use to be on Netflix?
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It used to be on Netflix but pretty sure I saw someone on another thread a few weeks back it was on prime but you have to pay for it.
 
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